| Type | Indigenous |
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| Family | Anacardiaceae |
| Local Name | Mavu |
| Local Name 2 | Moochi |
| Trade Name | Mango |
| Common Name | Mavu |
| Habit | Medium to large sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Drupe Seed weight: 106 seeds/kg. Seed weight varies widely depending on the variety (Chacko et al., 2002) Vernacular name: Mavu, Moochy (Malayalam); Maa, Mamaram , Manga (Tamil); Mavena, Mavu (Kannada); Am, Ambi (Hindi) (Chacko et al.,2002) Flowering season: January to February; November to March (India) and June and October (Australia) (Bose et al., 1998) Fruiting season: April to July (FRI, 1981; Chacko et al., 2002) Germination type: Hypogeal (Chacko et al.,2002) Germination percentage: Up to 83 (Chacko et al.,2002) Method of propagation: Budding, crown grafting, veneer grafting and side grafting. The cleft method is suitable for raising young plant material and for topworking. The scion should be more than 5 cm in length with more than 2 buds; after grafting it should be wrapped with po |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bark dark grey, rough with vertical fissures; blaze yellow; exudation yellowish, gummy. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 10-75 mm long, stout, glabrous, pulvinate; lamina 9.2-40 x 2.5-8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, linear-oblong, base attenuate or acute, apex acuminate, acute or obtusely acute, margin entire, glabrous, shiny, coriaceous; lateral nerves 14-28 pairs, pinnate, prominent; flowers yellowish-green, in terminal panicles; fruit a drupe, oblong-reniform, yellowish-red, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp fibrous; seed subreniform. |
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